Tan Kyu Shin Highbury

08/10/2025

There's really something rewarding about watching your older students teaching the basics to beginners. Thanks to the various councils involved in the Growing for Gold program for the opportunity.

06/08/2025

05/08/2025

This video while not specifically about martial arts really resonates with a part of me.

It really hit me with the following thoughts
“This started as a hobby… but now it feels like too much effort.
Why am I even doing this?
What could I be doing instead?”

But maybe that discomfort says more than we think.

It shows how we fear the unknown - the unsafe, the uncertain.

But growth doesn’t happen in safety.
Not in life, not in work, not in relationships… and not in our hobbies.

Sometimes, the only way forward is to embrace the unknown.
To lean into it.
Because that’s where progress lives.

I think his table looked great, let me know if you agree.

I continue my retro table for warhammer 40k and one page rules, it's time for texture and answer the question, 'should you do your hobby when you dont want t...

05/08/2025

It's great to be a part of a growing community like this, and seeing the growth of not only students, but the instructors on grading days.

23/06/2025

Is absolutely true in my case

30/05/2025

Sometimes the pads hit back, always important to keep our hands up!

23/05/2025

Learning the H Pattern Kata is a prerequisite for earning your white belt, and sets you up with the basics to go all the way through to black belt and beyond.

02/04/2025

Loving some Seinchin practice to hone those 45° angles.